“I love a sunburnt country…”

And, I also love being able to welcome the second cultural heritage institution to The Commons on Flickr: the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

The Powerhouse team has published 200 photos from its Tyrrell Collection into The Commons; wonderful old photos of Sydney and New South Wales from the turn of the 20th Century. One of the other exciting things about the Tyrrell images is that many of them are geotagged, so you can see what old Sydney town looked like 100 years ago! The Powerhouse is planning to open a group or two on Flickr to see if we can collect ‘then and now’ images of Sydney, using the Tyrrell images as the historical reference. Seb Chan from the Powerhouse has also written about it over at fresh + new(er).

In more news about The Commons, we’ve put together some more general information about what the “no known copyright restrictions” rights statement means, and provided links to the further information on the participating institutions’ websites. We also continue to receive expressions of interest from cultural heritage institutions around the world, large and small, and are actively working to continue to expand the program.

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Grant Kaye has been surrounded by photography since he was a toddler. Born in Hawai'i and based in Truckee, California, he followed in his father’s footsteps and went into photography at an early age.

“Dad taught me how to use his medium format camera system, and eventually 35mm while I was in high school in the 1990s. I was always carrying around a camera in college and grad school, but I was mostly taking snapshots and not really seriously studying the art of landscape photography,” he said.

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